Dealing with challenging situations and weighing up the best available evidence is a familiar scenario for medical professionals. But for Professor Brendan Murphy, who led the health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the scope of the challenge – and the evidence — changed constantly.

Pharmacists are gearing up for a boom in electronic prescriptions as metropolitan Sydney gets ready to follow Victoria into a new digital age.

Travelling the country. Choosing your own hours. Meeting new people. These are just a few of the reasons pharmacists choose to quit their day job and hit the road as a locum.  

Australia’s run of catastrophic summer bushfires followed by the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a grim toll on the nation’s mental health.

Pharmacists have long been advocating for better care for older Australians living independently or in residential aged care facilities.

Artificial barriers that prevent pharmacists in Queensland from caring for their patients should be removed, PSA has argued in the lead-up to the 2020 state election this month.

Pharmacist vaccinators in the ACT should be given greater scope to protect their communities against infectious diseases, PSA has argued.

On this year’s World Mental Health Day (10 October), the community was encouraged to ‘look after your mental health, Australia!’

A novel therapy under investigation could see pharmacists playing a greater role in helping patients to manage some common eye conditions.

A new medicines listing guarantee and supply chain reforms are two measures welcomed by pharmacists in the 2020–21 Federal Budget.